Fully kinetic simulations of undriven magnetic reconnection with open boundary conditions

By William S. Daughton, J. Scudder, Homa Karimabadi. 2006

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NUMERICAL TESTS OF FAST RECONNECTION IN WEAKLY STOCHASTIC MAGNETIC FIELDS (2009, methodology): “For this reason we have followed Daughton et al. (2006) in using open outflow boundary conditions.”
A Reconnection Switch to Trigger gamma-Ray Burst Jet Dissipation (2010, unknown): “The Hall effect involves a two-fluid laminar reconnection configuration with vr ≤ 0.1vA (Mandt, Denton & Drake 1994; Shay et al. 1998; Bhattacharjee, Ma & Wang 2001; Birn et al. 2001; Cassak et al. 2005; Daughton et al. 2006; Yamada et al. 2006).”
Dipolarization fronts as a signature of transient reconnection in the magnetotail (2009, methodology): “[4] In this paper we demonstrate that the north-south Bz asymmetry and many other distinctive features of DFs can be reproduced in the full-particle simulations with the initial setup similar to the GEM Magnetic Reconnection Challenge (GEM MRC) simulations [Birn et al., 2001] and a new set of openbo”
Multi-point observations of the Hall electromagnetic field and secondary island formation during magnetic reconnection (2006, background): “, 2006b], but recent work using open boundary conditions suggests that islands will form even when no guide field is present [Daughton et al., 2006].”
The Interplay of Magnetically Dominated Turbulence and Magnetic Reconnection in Producing Nonthermal Particles (2019, background): “However, numerical simulations have found ξc/λX ∼ 50 in the collisionless regime (e.g. Daughton et al. 2006; Daughton & Karimabadi 2007; Ji & Daughton 2011).”
PARTICLE ACCELERATION AND PLASMA DYNAMICS DURING MAGNETIC RECONNECTION IN THE MAGNETICALLY DOMINATED REGIME (2015, methodology): “The full particle simulations are performed using the VPIC code (Bowers et al. 2009) and NPIC code (Daughton et al. 2006; Daughton & Karimabadi 2007), both of which solve Maxwell equations and push particles using relativistic approaches.”
ELECTRON ACCELERATION BY MULTI-ISLAND COALESCENCE (2010, background): “…is localized only at the center of the diffusion region (‘inner diffusion region’) so that the reconnection rate remains fast while electrons form a high-velocity jet in the ‘outer diffusion region’ (Daughton et al. 2006; Fujimoto 2006; Shay et al. 2007; Karimabadi et al. 2007; Phan et al. 2007).”
Fast Plasma Investigation for Magnetospheric Multiscale (2016, background): “For example, very thin high speed current carrying electron flows near the boundary of the reconnection exhaust region are predicted by simulations (Daughton et al. 2006) and myriad instances of thin electron current sheets may be found in association with the reconnection region and in fields of tu”
Collisionless magnetic reconnection in an asymmetric current sheet (2008, background): “Very recent simulation results have demonstrated the importance of using a sufficiently large simulation system, either by implementing fully open boundary conditions [ Daughton et al., 2006; Karimabadi et al., 2007] or by employing larger periodic systems [Fujimoto, 2006; Shay et al., 2007], for d”
Plasmoids in relativistic reconnection, from birth to adulthood: first they grow, then they go (2016, background): “…close to the boundaries, where a large magnetic island is formed; or (ii ) absorbing boundary conditions in thex direction of the reconnection outflow, to mimic an open boundary in which no information is able to propagate back inward (Daughton et al. 2006; Cerutti et al. 2015; Belyaev 2015).”
Multi‐scale structure of the electron diffusion region (2007, methodology): “Results are presented from two fully kinetic simulations with open boundary conditions [Daughton et al., 2006] and larger system sizes than considered previously.”